fmela | 6 years ago | on: Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
Right or wrong, you can get around the sales tax using B&H's Payboo credit card (for use on their site only): https://www.bhphotovideo.com/credit-cards
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fmela | 6 years ago | on: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
This looks interesting, but it's the software that will make or break the experience.
Software aside, this is expensive ($479 when you select the pen with the eraser and the book cover), and the screen is not back-lit, so this won't be usable without other source of light.
Why is it so hard to find an e-ink device that's good for reading books, PDFs, and web content (e.g. Pocket)? So far, everything I've tried has fallen short.
fmela | 6 years ago | on: Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
See also https://librivox.org for free public domain audiobooks.
fmela | 6 years ago | on: Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video]
Yes, yes, and yes. It's in his FAQ: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html
fmela | 6 years ago | on: Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas
fmela | 6 years ago | on: The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
The FDIC limit is $250K: https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/faq.html
fmela | 6 years ago | on: Mother Earth Mother Board (1996)
This is a fantastic piece of writing that is worth re-reading.
Neal Stephenson just appeared on Tyler Cowen's Conversions with Tyler Podcast: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-neal...
fmela | 7 years ago | on: America’s Cities Are Running on Software from the ’80s
Oh, that's not so bad. American nuclear missiles are running software from the 70s, loaded via 8-inch floppy disks.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nucl...
fmela | 7 years ago | on: C Macro Magic
I've seen this same trick done with macros in BSD kernel code from the 80s!
fmela | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
Could you share the puzzle?
fmela | 8 years ago | on: ACE Submarine Cable Cut Impacts Ten Countries
I came here to post this link, too. :)
fmela | 8 years ago | on: Hindu Nationalists Undertake Effort to Rewrite History in India
Islam dates to the 7th century. According to its doctrine, it is the ultimate and final refinement of Abrahamic faith. Muslims believe that every prophet going back to Adam were taught by the same God they believe in, and hence were also Muslim; according to Islam, Judaism and Christianity are the same breed of Abrahamic monotheism which has since been distorted by man. So if you asked a Muslim, they might tell you that Islam is the original religion.
fmela | 8 years ago | on: Wolfenstein's original rendering engine as 450 line shader with no external data
Linear interpolation.
fmela | 8 years ago | on: Alphabet's earnings miss profit estimates as spending grows
This interesting blog post argues in the affirmative: http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm
fmela | 8 years ago | on: What's Happening with Bitcoin Prices
By trading tether issued out of thin air for BTC.
fmela | 8 years ago | on: GM says it will put fleets of self-driving cars in cities in 2019
They acquired lidar company Strobe in October: https://medium.com/kylevogt/how-were-solving-the-lidar-probl...
fmela | 8 years ago | on: Writing a Simple Linux Kernel Module
In the device_read function,
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`brew cask install font-hack` works great :)
fmela | 8 years ago | on: Go 1.9 is released
This is the relevant change: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0556e26273f704db73df9e7c...
fmela | 9 years ago | on: After nearly 4 years, a bunch of bugfixes to zlib
Facebook's ZStandard compression library appears to be both faster and better at compressing than zlib. Is there any reason to continue using zlib for new projects that don't need backward compatibility?
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